• Ted Ade, a personal financial planner with American Express Financial Advisors, has been selected as the 2002 president of the Financial Planning Association, Jacksonville.
• One of Central Florida’s oldest and largest public relations firms, Carlman Booker Reis Public Relations, has opened a Jacksonville office. Jill Leavy has been named division manager of the the new office.
• Donald C. Jones, chief executive officer of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, which in headquartered in Jacksonville, received the American Medical Association’s Medical Executive Achievement award. Jones is a Jacksonville native, graduating from Ribault High School and Jacksonville University.